CHRISTMAS MEMORIES ARE THE BEST

 Do you ever judge many happy times in your life with main events?

Summer vacations.

Birthdays. The special ones more than others. Like 25, 50, 75, 100. 

Or 60. That was a fun one.

Weddings.

Baby births.

Christmas.

Wreaths everywhere

Trying different decorating ideas.

Christmas memories usually top the list.

Starting to set the Christmas table.

Being creative with placenames!

My English Trigle.

Grandkids loved the Ginger Bread house

And Christmas Eve Seafood dinner prepared by Adolph.

I wish I had taken more pictures of food. "Foodies" take pictures of everything.

Christmas stockings with a name on them.

The Christmas Tree.

The presents.

The Christmas manager and angels. The reason for the Season.

Tim Hortons with a seasonal cup every year.

The family time.

The special presents. Mine- the diamond ear rings Adolph bought me in my 30s.

Playing Santa.

The big Christmas dinners. The most I had one year was 17. Now 11.

Lots of Christmas crackers and candy canes over the years,  Wearing those hats.

So now I have incentive to make a Memories of Christmas story for the family including lots of family pictures.

By the way, these are just a few of my Christmas pictures from over the decades.

How about you? What are your favourite Christmas memories?

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CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

Do you have any favourite Christmas memories?  I remember the first year I had my baby girl- Natasha. It was a new stage in our lives. Parents. Then two Christmases later another new member to have in our lives. Having children helped to bring back the fun of Christmas. Playing Santa and helping the magic happen. I am going to try to share some of these memories as they come to me.

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BARS'S GENEALOGY TIDBITS#7-CHRISTMAS TIME FOR INFORMATION

Christmas can be a good time when family is gathered to get some information. Lots of time to talk about family stories and traditions. Why not this 150 year get people's memories of how they celebrated as a child? What they love about the season? Who they celebrated with? Where? Bring some Christmas past Christmas pictures for others to scan, photograph on their cell phones or cameras. Have paper and pens handy. Photograph, video tape, - record those stories anyway you know how or what medium you use  After Christmas write down the menu or be a foodie and photograph the food, who was present at your feast, was there a theme. Is it a first Christmas with some people missing. Remember those people. Again get people's memories! Family stories are good! Genealogy is enriched with those stories. So between courses, do a little genealogy. Merry Christmas everyone!
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CANADIAN CHRISTMAS IMAGES AND MEMORIES

Christmas evokes many images and memories for all of us. There are cultural traditions. There are family traditions. Many people from other parts of the world have brought their traditions that now blend with Canadian traditions. My husband did not do much on Christmas day in Italy. Since coming to Canada in the late 1950s his Italian group have adapted to presents under the Christmas tree and other traditions that they have forgotten they were Canadian traditions in the first place!! So what memories do you have of your childhood Christmases? For me it was the stocking filled with little goodies, a large delicious apple and a large orange? My mother grew up during the Depression of the 1930s in Canada so fruit was scare in the winter for her as a child. An apple and orange in her stocking would have been a treat so she carried on the tradition with us. Of course the Santa gift was always beside the stocking. Although my family really does not eat plum pudding, I need to buy a small one to have in the house to have a little taste on Christmas day. My mother would add some rum to the sauce so it was very flavourful! I always gave my children a stocking but Adolph did not grow up with the stocking tradition. It was not much fun giving him a stocking filled and he did not reciprocate. It came with little meaning for him so as a couple we did not do the stocking thing. Actually I miss it as most adults I know still do a stocking for each other. Just love to hear about those "stocking stuffers"! So I have the memory anyway! With my house nicely decorated and the tree up, the coziness of my home brings a sense of peace and joy. As a child I liked to sit by the Christmas tree with the lights which is something I still enjoy. Snuggled in a corner of my love seat, I can knit or crochet, read a book or quietly listen to music. There is that seasonal bliss that comes with the Christmas season. Even in stores seeing well decorated trees can be admired! Oh the memories and images-I could go on but perhaps in another post! How about you? What images does it evoke?